The municipality lies in the eastern Hunsrück, right on the Autobahn A 61 and the Simmerbach, 8 km from Oberwesel on the Rhine to the northeast.

North of Laudert, cleft here and there by the Autobahn or high-voltage transmission lines, is an otherwise continuous expanse of higher-elevation forest growing above mainly greywacke bedrock.

In these woods, roughly a kilometre away from the village, in a swampy area that once afforded protection against attackers, is a flat-topped, motte-like mound.

It is rectangular and girded by two earthen walls, one inside the other, between which lay water traps (not, apparently, a continuous moat).

All too often, two settlements arose right next to each other and their growth led them to spread out, and into the short stretch of land between them.

It is unknown whether the division came about as the result of two separately founded villages which grew towards each other as in the example above, and the evidence does not support this hypothesis anyway.

It is known that Laudert – although it is not known which half – passed on 25 March 1275 as the result of a compromise to the nobleman (his rank is not mentioned) of Milewald.

The more easterly of these two Lauderts was thereafter assigned to the Amt of Oberwesel, which in turn was under the Trier Oberamt of Simmern.

The Remigiuskapelle ("Saint Remigius’s Chapel") in the graveyard in Laudert shows evidence of Frankish influence.

Among the deeds of visitation of the parish of Damscheid it is noted that in 1657, Laudert held ownership of a chapel that had fallen into disrepair, an overhaul of which should be undertaken.

The majority of inhabitants at this time lived in the more easterly part of the double village (the side nearer the Rhine), which made them Electorate of Trier subjects and therefore, following the rule in force in those days, always Catholic.

[1] The German blazon reads: Schild durch blauen Wellenbalken geteilt, oben in Schwarz ein wachsender rotbewehrter, -gezungter und gekrönter goldener Löwe, unten in Silber ein rotes Balkenkreuz.

According to one explanation from the state archive, the charges in the arms were suggested by historical and geographical factors.

In the old Empire, the Simmerbach, represented in the arms by the wavy blue fess (horizontal stripe), marked the boundary between Laudert's two halves, one of which was under the Electoral Palatinate rule, here symbolized by the Palatine Lion, and the other of which was under the Electorate of Trier rule, thus explaining the Trier Cross below the fess.